Nordic forest management towards climate change mitigation: time dynamic temperature change impacts of wood product systems including substitution effects

• DOI: 10.1007/s10342-022-01477-1
• Publication Date: 2022-07-19T10:03:07Z
• Authors: Maximilian Schulte; Ragnar Jonsson; Torun Hammar; Johan Stendahl; Per-Anders Hansson
• Keywords: Forest product

Abstract Climate change mitigation trade-offs between increasing harvests to exploit substitution effects versus accumulating forest carbon sequestration complicate recommendations for climate beneficial management. Here, a time dynamic assessment ascertains potential from different rotation management alternatives across three Swedish regions integrating the decision support system Heureka RegWise with wood product model using life cycle data. The objective is increase understanding on of varying Across all regions, prolonging rotations by 20% leads average largest additional net benefit until 2050 in both, saved emissions and temperature cooling, while decreasing cumulatively benefits past 2050. In contrast, or period accordingly provokes temporally alternating emissions, slight emission, respectively, regardless changing market displacement factor. However, future calamities might compromise cooling forests, effects, despite probable prospective decreases, require thorough explicit assessments, provide more robust policy consultation.